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Posted by olfart on September 10, 2007, 5:46 pm
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>> > thanks for all the help....i copied the disk and i have booted from
>> > it ....now i have a page with a penguin on ...and lists of errors in
>> > white......third of the way down in blue it says ....creating unified
>> > filesystem and systemlinks on ram disk....then more errors....then in
>> > red it says .....error cannot unite read only media and initial
>> > ramdisk....system halted....then in green it says cd successfully
>> > merged with read write ram disk...then another list of errors.......i
>> > really want to get the pics off the drive.....can i mount in in an
>> > external housing and go into the harddrive with my other laptpop and
>> > get the pics off..........i worried that trying to get the os working
>> > again might wipe all the pics off the drive........why do you think
>> > this is happening do you think i downloaded a virus or something....
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>> an external HD is STILL the way to go
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> do you mean i should take the hard drive out ...put it in a
> case ....then use usb to connect to my other laptop and get all my
> files off.....then i can put it back in and reinstall the os.....will
> that work......sorry im a newbie........if i could get it to reboot
> from recovery disk is there a chance i could loose everything or is
> that pretty safe.....thanks
It should...I said...should work. It's certainly worth a try. If you try to
recover the O/S you may lose everything. Don't write anything to the HD
before you try it exterally on your other laptop or you may overwrite the
files you want and lose them that way
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